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The Inventor's Workshop

How People and Machines Transformed Each Other

Ruth Amos

$22.99

Explore ten inventions that changed the world.

Step inside the inventor’s workshop to see how one creative spark leads to another . . . until an invention is born.

Find out how, when, and why these ingenious breakthroughs happened, and learn about all the people who created them. Discover how Ada Lovelace’s code inspired Charles Babbage’s work on the first modern computer; see how Lewis Latimer’s technology made Thomas Edison’s light bulb possible; and much more.

Picture Book · Inventions · Science